A full investigation has revealed:
This bug was introduced between coreutils 7.1 and 7.2, here:
commit 224a69b56b716f57e3a018af5a9b9379f32da3fc
Author: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Tue Feb 24 08:37:18 2009 +
sort: Fix two bugs with determining the end of field
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On 20/04/10 09:37, Alan Curry wrote:
A full investigation has revealed:
This bug was introduced between coreutils 7.1 and 7.2, here:
commit 224a69b56b716f57e3a018af5a9b9379f32da3fc
Author: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Tue Feb 24 08:37:18 2009 +
sort: Fix two bugs
On 20/04/10 09:37, Alan Curry wrote:
--- coreutils-8.4.orig/src/sort.c 2010-04-20 02:45:35.0 -0500
+++ coreutils-8.4/src/sort.c 2010-04-20 03:12:57.0 -0500
@@ -1460,9 +1460,6 @@
char *ptr = line-text, *lim = ptr + line-length - 1;
size_t eword = key-eword, echar =
Pádraig Brady wrote:
I've changed it around in the attached patch so that
we consistently use zero based limits throughout the code.
I'll push this later on tonight unless there are objections.
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This regression was introduced in commit 224a69b5, 2009-02-24,
sort: Fix two bugs with
With today's sort fix, in spite of it being for the
obsolete option format, I'm inclined to release coreutils-8.5.
Do any of you know of pending problems you'd like to see fixed in 8.5?
On 20/04/10 17:58, Jim Meyering wrote:
With today's sort fix, in spite of it being for the
obsolete option format, I'm inclined to release coreutils-8.5.
Do any of you know of pending problems you'd like to see fixed in 8.5?
No bugs outstanding for me and nothing seems pending at:
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention the conversion.
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How about this followup, copying the comment from Pádraig's patch into
our documentation?
doc/coreutils.texi |5 +
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
On 04/20/2010 04:17 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 20/04/10 17:58, Jim Meyering wrote:
With today's sort fix, in spite of it being for the
obsolete option format, I'm inclined to release coreutils-8.5.
Do any of you know of pending problems you'd like to see fixed in 8.5?
No bugs outstanding
Hi Padraig,
I'm sitting on features, some done, all mostly done,
so perhaps now is a good time to stabilize before
throwing those into the mix.
If those features include my work on sort and split, I'm
down to help you out with cleaning up stuff if you need
it. Just let me know.
